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Sustainability 3.0 in Libraries: A Challenge for Management

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  • Alice Keller

    (University Library Basel, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland)

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This article discusses three questions: “How can libraries make an effective contribution to resolving the sustainability challenges we are collectively facing?”; “When are libraries truly sustainable?”; and “How can library management support this shift?”. Looking across libraries and their history over the last few decades, the author discerns different stages of development leading to sustainability. In line with the work of Dyllick and Muff the author describes Sustainability Levels 0.0 to 3.0. The highest level requires a quantum leap and shifts from thinking inside out to thinking outside in. This article addresses the need that there is virtually no academic management literature on the topic of sustainability in libraries. It shows that whilst there are many examples of individual projects or activities, there is a serious lack of methodology at the senior management level.

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  • Alice Keller, 2023. "Sustainability 3.0 in Libraries: A Challenge for Management," Publications, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-9, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jpubli:v:11:y:2023:i:1:p:6-:d:1057444
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